Ok.. One more post. I just got a search request for:
The+fish+that+saved+Pittsburgh+Wholey
Wholey’s is a well known seafood wholesaler in Pittsburgh about an hour away that I have written about in the past, but that is just a strange combination.
I just got back from
I just got back from We Were Soldiers. The only way I can describe it right now is that it was traumatic. I will talk about it more tomorrow. I am physically spent. No more blogging for me tonight- I need to go read or watch something light and entertaining, which should not be hard to find. Right now, even Balkan Ghosts feels light and entertaining.
Hunger Strike called off on
Hunger Strike called off on account of widespread hunger.
Appears only a third of those who started the hunger strike are still on it. IMHO, this is a damn shame. I was counting on waiting a month or so and then unceremoniously dumping their dead bones into the bay to make a nice shark treat.
The Blogfather notes that Charles
The Blogfather notes that Charles Murtaugh (another blog that needs to be in the links here) is calling for more Republican Party Animals. I agree with the sentiment, but in what can be only be described as a pedantic and petty observation on my part, I must point out that the actual phrase coined by P.J. O’Rourke (one of my heroes) is ‘Republican Party Reptile.’ This is actually the name of a collection of shorts by P.J., in which P.J. offers up some of my favorite things he has ever written, including The Safety Nazi’s, High-Speed Performance Characteristics of Pickup Trucks, and the greatest story of youthful indiscretion ever written, How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink.
P.J. describes what a Republican Party Reptile is, and why he wants to be called one, in the Introduction: Apologia Pro Vita Republican Party Reptile Sua:
Neither conservatives nore humorists believe man is good. But left-wingers do. They think man’s misbehavior is caused by a deprived environment, educational shortcomings, and improper bonding within the family unit. They believe there are people so poor they can’t pick up their yard. Down that line of thinking lie all sorts of nastiness. Just ask the Cubans.
So I’m a conservative; what else could I be? However, I’m not completely happy about it. Let’s face it, conservatives can be buttheads, too. There are the reborn Jesus Creeps, for instance. We should do to these what the conservative Romans did, with lions. But even regular country club-type Republicans can be stuffy about some things- dope smuggling, for example, and mixing Quaaludes in your scotch, and putting your stereo speakers on the roof of your house and turning the volume all the way up an playing Parliament of Funk at 3:00 A.M.
So, what I’d really like is a new label. And I’m, sure there are a lot of people who feel the same way. We are the Reublican Party Reptiles. We look like Republicans, and think like conservatives, but we drive a lot faster and keep vibrators and baby oil and a video camera behind the stack of sweaters on the bedroom closet shelf. I think our agenda is clear. We are opposed to: government spending, Kennedy kids, seat-belt laws, being a pussy about nuclear power, busing our children anywhere other than Yale, trailer courts near our vacation homes, Gary Hart, all tiny Third World countries that don;t have banking secrecy laws, aerobics, the U.N. taxation without tax loopholes, and jewelry on men. We are in favor of: guns, drugs, fast cars, free love (if our wives don;t find out), a sound dolar, a cleaner environment (poor people should cut it out with the graffiti, a strong military with spiffy unuiforms, Nastassia Kinski, Star Wars (and anything else that scares the Russkis) and a firm stand on the Middle East (raze buildings, burn crops, plow the earth with salt, and sell the population into bondage).
Yeehaw. P.J.’s best book is Parliament of Whores.
This is why a great
This is why a great number of people are generally disgusted by lawyers. In the well publicized dog trial today, this is an actual exchange between the defense lawyer and Susan Smith, the grieving partner of the deceased Diane Whipple:
Smith said Whipple had been bitten before by one of the dogs, named Bane, and that she herself had to jump back when the animal lunged at her in the lobby of their San Francisco apartment building.
Whipple would not leave their apartment without looking out the door to make sure the dogs were not in sight, Smith said.
“Every time we passed the dogs, she made sure I was between her and the dogs,” Smith said.
Smith said after Whipple was bitten on the hand by one of the dogs “she was very scared of those dogs, terrified.”
Ruiz then noted that neither Whipple nor Smith complained about the dogs’ behavior. Smith said they were afraid and wanted nothing to do with the couple across the hall.
“You did nothing to remedy the situation where your life partner lived in fear?” Ruiz asked.
“We took action. We stayed away from the dogs. I didn’t make a complaint. Now I wish I had,” Smith said, tears welling in her eyes.
“Do you consider that had you made a complaint, Diane Whipple might be alive today?” Ruiz asked, drawing loud gasps in the courtroom. Smith responded by shaking her head back and forth.
It is too bad you can not be disbarred for bad taste.
Whoopi Goldberg was just on
Whoopi Goldberg was just on Hardball and was….
completely reasonable, respectful, and thoughtful. Sure, she may disagree with Bush on a lot of stuff, but she was respectful and made sense. Take note Mr. Daschle.
According to Google and Bravenet
According to Google and Bravenet Stat Counters, yours truly is one of the leading sources for:
Photographs + of + ritalin + pills.
Charming.